I'd Run
Buddy Jewell

Capo 1st Fret


[Intro]    Cx2


Cx2                                                                            Gx3
I stood out on the trestle waitin' for the whistle; The 4.09 was right on time again, Lord, I'd a-got a
                                                                                                      Cx3
Lickin? if they caught me playin' chicken, but I was quite the practiced liar way back then, I saw

The smoke above the treetops, and when the train came into view, I stood still as a statue, but I
Gx2                                                         Pause
Knew what to do, when I could read the numbers on the front ______


[Chorus]
     Fx3                                                                                                     Cx2
I'd run like a gipsy, like the hounds of hell'd get me, like a rabbit on the wrong end of a gun
     Fx3
I'd run like the lightning cuttin' 'cross the Kansas skyline like the tears that Momma cried for
         Gx2      Fx2        C       F  Gx2
Her lost son, I'd run, yeah, I'd run _________



Cx2
I got older but no smarter an cheatin' fate got harder, But I could still outwit the devil and his
Gx3
Friends, Went through whiskey, cards an' women, takin' more than I was givin', Throwin' love
                   Cx3
And caution to wind, Every time I'd let some beauty, Get a little too close to me, She'd hang
                                   Gx2
Around just long enough to find herself the key, when I could feel the lock on my heart come

Undone,






[Chorus]

    Fx3                                                                                 Cx2
I'd run like a gipsy, like the hounds of hell'd get me, like a rabbit on the wrong end of a gun
    Fx3
I'd run like the lightning cuttin' 'cross the Kansas skyline like the tears that Momma cried for
        Gx2       Fx2        C       F    Gx2   C
Her lost son, I'd run, yeah, I'd run _____________


                    Cx2
There's broken hearts an' broken bottles, An' dreams all gone to dust, Girls gone home to
          Gx2                                                                  Pause
Momma an' cars all gone to rust, If I could go back an' undo the hurt I'd done ______


[Chorus]
    Fx3                                                                                 Cx2
I'd run like a gipsy, like the hounds of hell'd get me, like a rabbit on the wrong end of a gun
    Fx3
I'd run like the lightning cuttin' 'cross the Kansas skyline like the tears that Momma cried for
        Gx2       Fx2        C        F    Gx2              C    F             Gx2
Her lost son, I'd run, yeah, I'd run __________You know I'd run _____Yeah, I'd run


[Ending Solo]    C       F    Gx2    C